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Donald Y. Leung, MD, PhD
Donald Y. Leung, MD, PhD
  • Head, Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
  • National Jewish Health

Dr. Leung is Professor of Pediatrics at University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. He attended the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D in 1975 and a M.D. in 1977. He did a pediatric internship and residency at Boston Children's Hospital and was a Fellow in Allergy-Immunology at Boston Children's Hospital between 1979-1981. He subsequently joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School with appointments as Assistant Professor (1983) and Associate Professor (1987) in Pediatrics. Since 1989, Dr. Leung has been Head of Pediatric Allergy-Immunology at National Jewish Health. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) as well as The American Board of Allergy and Immunology (ABAI). Since 1994, he has been Director of the NIH funded, University of Colorado Clinical and Translation Research Center Site at National Jewish Health. Between 2003-2015, he was Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the most highly cited journal in its field.

Dr. Leung is the author of more than 600 publications and has received over 30 federally funded grants. In 1983, he received the NIH Young Investigator Research Award for research on allergic responses in atopic dermatitis; Between 1995-2005, he was the recipient of a ten year NIH /NHLBI MERIT Award for his work in Kawasaki Syndrome, and in 1997, he won the E. Mead Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Pediatrics; In 2003, he received the WAO Scientific Achievement Award; in 2004, he was the recipient of The American Skin Association/SID Psoriasis Achievement Award for his work on the role of infection in inflammatory skin diseases; the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) named him to their list of World’s Most Highly Cited Authors in Immunology (top 0.5% of cited articles in past 20 years) in 2006; In 2004-present, he was appointed Principal Investigator of a multi-medical center NIH/NIAID Atopic Dermatitis Research Network to study mechanisms underlying bacterial and viral infections in atopic dermatitis. In 2012, he was awarded the AAAAI Distinguished Service Award for his contributions as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. In 2013, he was chosen to deliver the prestigious Robert A. Cooke Lectureship at the AAAAI Annual meeting commemorating its founder and adding to numerous named lectureships that Dr Leung has presented. In 2015, he was given a honorary Professorship at The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University in China. He was also named by US News and World Report as being amongst the top 1% of physicians. In 2015, he was honored with The NJH Kauvar Presidential Award. In 2016, the AAAAI voted to name a 2016 AAAAI Foundation Faculty Development Award in his honor, i.e. “The Dr. Donald Y. M. Leung/JACI & AAAAI Foundation Faculty Development Award.

Schedule29 Mar 2024